This week's episode of Experts @ Work with Jeremy Zawodny, we sit down with Eric Baldeschwieler, who leads a team of engineers at Yahoo! that has spent the last 18 months enhancing the Hadoop open source project to run on thousands of computers. They have supported a large community of internal users of Hadoop on shared clusters. Eric has lead large scale infrastructure projects to support web search and other activities at Yahoo! and Inktomi since 1996.

While at Defrag, we sat down with Dr. Phil Windley, a nationally recognized expert in using information technology (IT) to add value to business. He regularly consults with businesses on this topic and is particularly interested in the areas of interoperability, web services, XML, and digital identity.

Jeremy Zawodny sits down for a chat and talks about identity, DeFrag, and other topics:

This upcoming weekend, I have the privilege of speaking at Mashup Camp Dublin, being held at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin. As a beer geek, a mashup geek, and sometimes-literary geek (James Joyce's Dubliners is one of my favorite works of literature), I can't imagine a better place to be. I'm really looking forward to it. I'll be talking about some of the many great tools and services we offer for mashup developers via the Yahoo! Developer Network and might even be tempted to throw in some strained beer metaphors from my own home-brewing experiences ("The YUI libraries are the finishing hops of the web." Ok, maybe not.)

Other speakers at Mashup Camp Dublin include Woodson Martin from Salesforce.com and John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com. The real magic comes from the folks who attend and create their own sessions in the now time-honored unconference format, not to mention the mashup contest and the excitement of speed-geeking. David Berlind and Doug Gold (the organizers) know

Our first webisode in our "Experts @ Work" series, we sit down with Steve Souders who works at Yahoo! as the Chief Performance Yahoo!. As part of his work, Steve has developed a set of best practices for making web sites faster. His book, High Performance Web Sites, explains these best practices along with the research and hands-on results that went into them.